Horticulture is the Science, Technology, and business involved in intensive plant cultivation for human use.
It is practiced from the level of a garden up to the activities of a multinational corporation.
Horticulture is very diverse(unique) in its activities like incorporating plants for food and non food crops.
It also includes related services in plant conservation, landscape restoration, landscape and garden design/maintenance/construction, arboriculture, horticultural therapy, and much more.
The word horticulture is modeled after agriculture
Horticulture involves eight areas of study which are Arboriculture Turf management Floriculture Landscape horticulture Oleculture Pomology viticulture Oenology Postharvest physiology
Arboriculture is the study of, and the selection, planting, care, and removal of, individual trees, shrubs, vines, and other perennial woody plants.
Turf management includes all aspects of the production and maintenance of turf grass for sports, leisure use or amenity use
Floriculture includes the production and marketing of floral crops.
Landscape horticulture includes the production, marketing and maintenance of landscape plants.
olericulture includes the production and marketing of vegetables
Pomology includes the production and marketing of pome fruits.
Oenology includes all aspects of wine and winemaking.
Post harvest physiology involves maintaining the quality of and preventing the Spoilage of plants and animals.
Horticulturist can work in industries, government, educational institutions, and private collections.
They can be cropping systems, engineers, wholesale or retail business managers, propagators, and tissue culture specialists.
Horticulture is practiced in many gardens, "plant growth centre's" and nurseries.
